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To: LindyBill who wrote (51977)	6/30/2004 3:40:07 AM
From: KLP	of 793868

Too bad that an investigation can't be had on WHY Congress sits on >>> Rapid Acquisition Authority <<<... naming all who are sitting on it, and then quoting them when they holler about not getting equipment to the troops.... Leading the opposition was the Congressional Black Caucus, apparently concerned that preferences in government contracting would go by the boards. Of the caucus's 36 members, 18 voted against the bill and another 10 abstained. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also abstained--despite her repeated attacks on the administration for not getting necessary equipment to the troops. In the Senate, partly because of the organized opposition in the House, the legislation is having an even rougher time. The office of John Warner, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, says the senator hasn't had time to even look at the bill and "therefore has no position on it." As for Mr. Warner's Democratic counterpart, Sen. Carl Levin's office assured me the bill would not come up for a vote at all.

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